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Points
to /usr/bin/X1 huh?
I bet
you are making good soup of binaries of msvc compiled stuff rom contrib
directory and xfree86 stuff from
xc-4-binaries directory at Cygwin/XFree FTP
server.
There
should be no XF86Config file. It is not needed by XWIN. The port was
done in a way that Windows
does
not require XF86Config file. XF86Config file basically contains your
video, mouse and monitor info
on a
Linux box. On Windows, we get that info by using DirectInput/DirectX,
therefore not needed.
Suggestions:
1)
Delete everything under \cygwin\usr\X11R6
3)
under \cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin edit startxwin.bat and correct the drive letters in
PATH for your installation
4)
Open a DOS shell
5) cd
\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
6)
type startxwin
7) get
a cup of coffee and enjoy if you get it working, if not post exact error
messages from the console window
Suhaib
Suhaib,
Thanks for your help. I tried your suggestion to
run startxwin.bat from the DOS prompt. I first ha dto chage the path mentioned
in it; it now points to /usr/bin/X11, which does not exist. After that, the
resuly was the same as before.
What puzzles me is that there is not a XF86config
file in my cygwin directory structure; is it not required for
XWin?
Thanks again, any suggestions what to try
next?
>>L.S.
>
>>I have a problem
that looks a bit like the one reported recently by John Turner; however, the
solution outlined for
>>him does not work for me.
>>This
is what I did:
>>- installed Cygwin 1.1.4 on my machine (PIII, TNT2
video card). This was the first time I used Cygwin, so no chance >>for
B20.1 or other versions.
>
>
>I hope people stop thinking of
B20.1. That word is engraved in some user mind
>so deep that
Cygwin can be on B20.1 but nothing else???
>
>
>>-
downloaded all xfree86-4.0-* tar.bz2 files
>>- untarred into toplevel
cygwin dir, so installation is under /usr/X11R6
>>- added
/usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/X11R6/lib in front of the path in /etc/profile; the
path is OK according to bash.
>>- entered "startxwin.bat" at the bash
prompt.(XWin -screen 8 1024x768x16 has the same effect)
>
>You DO
NOT enter startxwin.bat at the BASH prompt. That is your
problem.
>The batch files are for DOS. For BASH, use startx script
which ships with xfree86. OR WRITE
>YOUR
OWN.
>
>
>>A few DOS boxes with xwin, xterm etc. flash
over the screen, then the screen becomes black, with just a small
>>>hour->glass shaped cursor, which can be moved around. For the
rest, the machine is completely frozen, only
>the reset
>>button gets it alive
again.
>>Two times there was a "lost cluster" on the disk after
reboot that contained a listing of messages just as John >>reported,
apart that the text stops after "error opening security policy
file
>>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy".
>>I did a
few experiments to see what could be happening:
>>- I did rebuild all
font .dir files as recommended to John, but this does not help.
>>-
it looks like the Xserver is running, trying to point an xterm from a linux
box did not give any errors on the
>>linux side, only nothing was visible at
the windws side!
>>- the xterm on the cygwin/windows machine does
work with the MIX Xserver,only it reports that sh is not available,
>>but I do not think this could be the problem.
>
>>Any
suggestions how to get this to work, or at least to get some more info
(logfiles etc) about what is going >wrong?
>>Any configuration
files that should be changed?
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